Quantum vacuum fluctuations—microscopic ripples in quantum fields 10^-30 seconds after the Big Bang—were stretched across the entire 20-billion-light-year sky by cosmic inflation, and these stretched fluctuations are the ripples we now observe in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Evidence Quote
“the quantum fluctuations were stretched across the entire sky where they became frozen and it's these vacuum fluctuations here which are the ripples that you see in the fireball.”
Source
Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong— The Royal InstitutionCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:55:31 PM
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